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Singer of Tales
Third Edition
Av Albert B. Lord, David F. Elmer
Häftad, 2019
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250 kr
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First published in 1960, Albert B. Lord’s The Singer of Tales remains the fundamental study of the distinctive techniques and aesthetics of oral epic poetry. Based upon pathbreaking fieldwork conducted in the 1930s and 1950s among oral epic singers of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, Lord analyzes in …
Ascension of Authorship
Attribution and Canon Formation in Jewish, Hellenistic, and Christian Traditions
Av Jed Wyrick
Häftad, 2004
280 kr
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The Ascension of Authorship traces the history of the idea of the author in the ancient world, beginning with the attribution practices of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism. Jed Wyrick explores the testimony of Josephus on the succession of prophetic scribes and their superiority to Greek …
Original Subjects
The Child, the Novel, and the Nation
Häftad, 2001
206 kr
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Original Subjects explores the interweaving of the child-hero and the fortunes of a nation as these are portrayed in a wide selection of novels and national narratives in the French and English traditions. Ala Alryyes examines how these works deploy similar metaphors and signifying narratives in …
Visions of Persia
Mapping the Travels of Adam Olearius
Häftad, 2004
262 kr
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This work examines the travel account of a German baroque author who journeyed in search of silk from Northern Germany, through Muscovy, to the court of Shah Safi in Isfahan.Adam Olearius introduced Persian literature, history, and arts to the German-speaking public; his frank appraisal of Persian …
Soliciting Darkness
Pindar, Obscurity, and the Classical Tradition
Häftad, 2004
280 kr
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Hailed by Horace and Quintilian as the greatest of Greek lyric poets, Pindar has always enjoyed a privileged position in the so-called classical tradition of the West. Given the intense difficulty of the poetry, however, Pindaric interpretation has forever grappled with the perplexing dilemma that …
Medieval Joke Poetry
The Cantigas d’Escarnho e de Mal Dizer
Av Benjamin Liu
Häftad, 2004
280 kr
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Medieval Joke Poetry examines the intersection of jokes, laughter, insults, and poetry in a collection of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century medieval Iberian songs known as the Cantigas d’escarnho e de mal dizer. Written in Galician-Portuguese, these “songs of mockery and insult” make up a …
Hyperboles
The Rhetoric of Excess in Baroque Literature and Thought
Häftad, 2010
284 kr
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This book offers a detailed, comparatist defense of hyperbole in the Baroque period. Focusing on Spanish and Mexican lyric (Góngora, Quevedo, and Sor Juana), English drama (King Lear and translations of Seneca), and French philosophy (Descartes and Pascal), Christopher D. Johnson reads Baroque …
Subjects without Selves
Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction
Inbunden, 1994
1005 kr
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How do aesthetic forms contribute to different kinds of cultural knowledge? Gabriele Schwab responds to this question with an analysis of the nature of subjectivity in modernist fiction. Drawing on French and Anglo-American psychoanalysis as well as reader response theory, she explores the …
